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  • State regulators meet this week to decide whether to expedite the implementation of a new law that would change environmental standards. It includes a...
  • With the completion of a $29 billion merger, the Lorillard Tobacco Company ends in Greensboro. The tobacco giant that had roots in 18th-century New York...
  • Ask most cinephiles about the greatest movie directors and producers ever, and Alfred Hitchcock's name will come up. Hitchcock was the "Master of...
  • Now that they're locking the door, how will people get into the White House?
  • When you were a child, did you imagine being Superman?
  • Amateur scientists launched the Sicilian Space Program with a homemade spacecraft — a helium balloon and at the tip of the tiny vessel: a clay cannollo.
  • Animated GIFs of satellite images show the before and after effects of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.
  • Turnout in Buncombe County was just over 71%, slightly above the state average for North Carolina.Incumbents did well at the polls. Both members of the…
  • Two new documentaries probe the effects of outside influences on third-world countries. In Our Brand is Crisis, the arrival of U.S. campaign consultants threatens the outcome of a Bolivian presidential election. And Darwin's Nightmare is about the devastation of Lake Victoria in Tanzania.
  • In Spain, he is known as El Ingles, or "The Englishman." Frank Evans is the country's only British matador, and a knee injury may force him to retire at the age of 62.
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